Crackpot idea to ban singing of ‘Delilah’

Lytham Proms Festival Weekend 2014 Tom Jones Live.'Pictured is Tom Jones live on stage at the start of the concert.'2nd August 2014

Mr Pendle

Published:15:35Friday 19 December 2014

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The 2015 Six Nations Rugby Union Championship kicks off in Cardiff in February when Wales take on England.

The match will see the traditional airing of Tom Jones’s 1968 hit “Delilah”, as is the case at Welsh home games – but former Plaid Cymru president Dafyyd Iwan, a politician unheard of before, has grabbed the headlines by trying to get the song banned because, he says, it glorifies domestic violence and trivialises murder.

No matter that the song has been sung at Welsh rugby internationals for years without so much as a murmur of complaint.

No matter that the song won the Ivor Novello Award in the year it was written for being the best song musically and lyrically, it reached number two in the charts and is always popular wherever karaoke sessions are held.

However, Mr Iwan, obviously short of a headline in the run-up to Christmas, called for the song not to be played and the national media went into hysterical overdrive.